{"id":9039,"date":"2024-08-18T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=9039"},"modified":"2024-08-18T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:32:52","slug":"endurance-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/endurance-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Endurance? Range?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Aircraft Range? Your ATPL guide to Specific Range, Specific Fuel Consumption and Fuel Flow.\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCBAP5R3K_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Range is affected by:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>fuel on board<\/li>\n<li>fuel flow (how fast the fuel is burnt)!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Fuel flow increase (i.e burn more fuel) &#8211;&gt; range will reduce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Range can be said as the distance the aircraft can go per unit of fuel ( Distance NM\/ Fuel kg)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Range can be translated into specific range :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specific range = Airspeed (TAS) \/ Fuel Flow (kg\/hr)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC) = Fuel used \/ Thrust<\/p>\n<p>Imagine examples: SFC = 2\/2 = 1 ;\u00a0 SFC = 1\/2 = 0.5<\/p>\n<p>So, the lower the SFC, it means the less fuel used for the same amount of thrust, and so it means that the engine is more efficient~<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fuel flow expression is a bit different between propeller and jet type~<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Fuel-Flow-Different-between-Propeller-and-Jet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9047\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Fuel-Flow-Different-between-Propeller-and-Jet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Aircraft Endurance? Your ATPL guide to Specific Fuel Consumption and Fuel Flow.\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XwcuwAYI3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Range is affected by: fuel on board fuel flow (how fast the fuel is burnt)! Fuel flow increase (i.e burn more fuel) &#8211;&gt; range will reduce. &nbsp; Range can be said as the distance the aircraft can go per unit of fuel ( Distance NM\/ Fuel kg) &nbsp; Range can be translated into specific range<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/endurance-range\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9039"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}